Republican Sinn Féin have been accused of talking “nonsense” after an astonishing attack on the GAA during the party’s Easter commemoration at Milltown Cemetery on Sunday. The party, which is aligned to the Continuity IRA, which burned a digger at Casement Park two years ago after contractors working on the Andersonstown stadium refused to pay protection money, acused the GAA?of “selling out” by accepting “English money” to redevelop Casement Park.

In its annual statement to mark the 1916 Easter Rising, RSF Vice-President Geraldine Taylor said the GAA had “sold out its independence and the ideals of its founders when it accepted a massive amount of English money – £61 million – to develop Casement Park in Belfast.”

“Rodger Casement got the English hangman’s rope but those who use his name allow themselves to be exploited by Stormont, just as others contribute to the city of Derry – historic Doire Cholm Cille – being the British City of Culture in 2013. Those who pay the piper undoubtedly call the tune.

Speaking to the Andersonstown News yesterday, Geraldine Taylor, who delivered the statement on behalf of the RSF leadership, said: “Sinn Féin are using the good name of Roger Casement, who was hanged in an English jail to accept blood money from England. They have forgotten our past, where is the pride in that?

“Sinn Féin are well paid for what they doing yet our hospitals are in disarray, A&Es are closing and people are losing their homes, they are crying out for help and no-one is helping them.”

“The funding for Casement Park isn’t some privilege or bribe – it is an entitlement that the GAA deserve. Irish cultural organisations have historically been underfunded – in fact it’s fair to say that some have never received funding before. The fact that Sinn Féin sit on the Executive and the Assembly is ensuring that this balance is redressed.

“RSF’s statement just shows the bankruptcy of the complete negativity that exists within the party. What are they going to criticise next? Funding for Irish language groups? Irish medium education? The Gaeltacht Quarter?

“In contrast to their negativity, the GAA is a shining light within our communities. It would do them no harm to go around some of the clubs in West Belfast on a Saturday or Sunday morning to see the leadership that the GAA provides to our young people, they are making facilities available for our young people to develop them and provide them with friendships,” he said.

Mr Sheehan said that all Republican Sinn Féin have to offer is negativity and destruction.

“That’s why they are on the complete margins of society.

“No-one wants them, no-one wants to listen to their message – it’s an absolute nonsense and they have nothing positive to offer in contrast to the GAA.

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“Casement Park is one in a number of investments going into West Belfast over the coming years, it’s one of the biggest investments ever into Andersonstown and will provide our young people with jobs and our local businesses with extra footfall. Of course RSF don’t want this.”

'Dissedent Republicans' make these ant-British noises and fire the odd bullet and 1 or 2 bombs a year so that they can get away with criminal behaviour, killing more human beings in Republic of Ireland, in the lucrative 'me fein' world of drugs and criminality. They're killing of PSNI man Ronnan Kerr and the 'Real IRA's killing of those 2 British soldier was just a front, to kill criminals in the south and move in on their turf. Criminal really.

Warped ideas of hypocrites that dont deserve any airtime. The "war" is over. Roger Casement did his bit ofr Irish sovereignty - what matter is it where the money is spent when it comes to any work to redevelop GAA grounds. We live in a time when we all need to leearn to live together and respect one another. Would they prefer that such division remains?I have lived in England for nearly 16 years and hurled here for 11. I have often carried my hurleys with me on the way to training or games on public transport while I have been here. I have lost count of the amount of English people who in that time have come up to me and asked me where hurling was played in London and that they would love to see a game here. And also, how much they respected the game, how great a spectacle it was and how much they admired in on the television. Are they wrong too?

Originally posted by Site Admin:In its annual statement to mark the 1916 Easter Rising, RSF Vice-President Geraldine Taylor said the GAA had “sold out its independence and the ideals of its founders when it accepted a massive amount of English money – £61 million – to develop Casement Park in Belfast.”

“Rodger Casement got the English hangman’s rope but those who use his name allow themselves to be exploited by Stormont, just as others contribute to the city of Derry – historic Doire Cholm Cille – being the British City of Culture in 2013. Those who pay the piper undoubtedly call the tune.

Speaking to the Andersonstown News yesterday, Geraldine Taylor, who delivered the statement on behalf of the RSF leadership, said: “Sinn Féin are using the good name of Roger Casement, who was hanged in an English jail to accept blood money from England. They have forgotten our past, where is the pride in that?

“Sinn Féin are well paid for what they doing yet our hospitals are in disarray, A&Es are closing and people are losing their homes, they are crying out for help and no-one is helping them.”

I was very dissapointed when I read this article, how my heart filled with the expectation that the leaders of SF were about announce that they had decided to throw the Queens shilling back at her feet. Once again one rule for SF and one for everybody else.Alas once again I felt sorely let down by SF and its leaders, they will criticise others for accepting British Money while stuffing it greedily in their own back pocket.Long live the republic.